Dark Wyvern Mining

Played this as part of GenCon 2025. We didn’t realize that they would be combining me and my friends with strangers which really dampened the experience. We had a 10 year child who was left to run rogue alone in our group while his mother waited outside, and he pretty much grabbed at everything or tried to wrestle the puzzle out of your hands as soon as someone came up with the solution. At one point he even took my own phone out of my hands while I was trying to use it as a flashlight. Aside from this, the room itself was fun and fairly extensive and well thought out! There were some locks or components that looked like puzzles but turned out to be unrelated to the game; I’ve seen other rooms stick a sign or 🚫 symbol on these which would’ve been helpful and avoided wasting our time. Some of the trigger puzzles didn’t activate correctly either even if we had the right answer which made it a bit confusing. Overall, I would recommend anyone who likes escape games to give this room a shot! Just make sure it’s a private booking— I assume we got pushed with strangers because GenCon was so busy, but it heavily detracted from the experience because we felt like babysitters.

The room itself was great. Lots of fun puzzles and some pretty cool teamwork opportunities. One problem… We asked if we could do another room immediately afterwards when we saw that there were several bookings open on their website. The manager made us sit out in the lobby for 40 minutes, until all the booking times had passed and then came out to tell us that — because all the booking times had passed — we could not do another room. It was super disappointing to spend 40 minutes waiting only to be told we could no longer do another roo

The room master left the challenger stuck in the first room for 20 minutes. We looked at the hints on the screen about five times throughout the game. I wonder if the game master is slacking off. We are not good at English, so it was difficult for us to understand the hints, and we were unable to reach the final puzzle. The game master must know that we do not understand English because we heard the same hints over and over again. We still could not understand it, so we asked him to display it on the screen, and he did for the first time. However, the color of the background and the text did not match well, and we could hardly read it. First of all, the screen was so far away that I couldn't read the text. There were many gimmicks along the way that we did not understand why they moved forward. It seemed that the master had just moved forward without any explanation to us. It was not clear why the gimmicks along the way were the answers. The only good thing about it was that the rooms were luxurious. If we had not reached the end and the time limit was reached, we were kicked out of the room. What was waiting for us when we reached the end, and did we have to try again? I have played over 500 escape rooms in Japan and the US, but the game master's attitude here was so bad that it would have been much better if they had left the room unmanned and provided a hint book. The game master of this room just didn't seem interested in entertaining the challengers. 最初の部屋で挑戦者が詰まってから20分放置するルームマスター。我々がこのゲームを通して画面に映ったヒントを見たのは5回程度でした。ゲームマスターはサボっているのでしょうか。我々は英語がうまくなく、ヒントの理解も難しく、最後のパズルに辿り着くこともできませんでした。同じヒントを何度も繰り返し聞いたため、こちらが英語を理解していないことをゲームマスターはわかっているはずです。我々はやっぱり理解できなかったため画面に表示するよう依頼して、初めて画面に表示してくれました。しかし、背景と文字は色の相性が悪く、読むことがほとんどできませんでした。そもそも、画面が遠く文字は読めませんでした。途中で何度もなぜ先に進んだのかわからないギミックが多くありました。我々に説明もなしにマスターが勝手に次に進ませたとしか思えませんでした。途中のギミックはなぜその答えになるのか理由が明確ではありませんでした。部屋が豪華なのだけがとりえです。最後まで辿り着いていない状態で制限時間になったら部屋を追い出されました。最後まで行ったら一体何が待っていたのか、もう一度挑戦しろということなのでしょうか。私は日本、アメリカで500を優に超えるエスケープルームを遊んでいますが、ここのゲームマスターの対応はあまりに酷く、無人でヒントブックを置いてくれた方がはるかにましです。この部屋のゲームマスターは挑戦者を楽しませる気がないとしか思えませんでした。

Great room! Loved the genre busting theme! It felt like a real excavation adventure into a fantastical mine! It’s also 90 minutes so there is more time to breathe, solve puzzles, and soak in the scenery. The transition, while really fun, broke on us, which was super unfortunate… Puzzles were good, but the game was very lock heavy. Locks on locks on locks… and also one clue is literally wrong and made one puzzle unnecessarily frustrating. It certainly didn’t help that it led us trying to put that wrong combination into 4-5 locks at the same time… There are fun wow moments and the set design is excellent and immersive. Our group had a lot of fun! One particularly smart puzzle kept our partners very involved! Would recommend digging up this one if you’re IN the area!

I really like the thought behind the set design. There are alot of locks that need to be decoded which wouldn’t be so bad except for that all of the puzzles seemed very sequential. There were times I found myself not doing anything as the other members of my team were solving something; we don’t like to crowd each other.

Loved it - it was a serious challenge, but I never felt like the room was frustrating. The set is amazing and detailed, this is a truly immersive room with a lot of “wow” moments. If you’re experienced with escape rooms, this is a “Do not miss” experience

Rating: 2/5 I really wanted to like this room but it ended up being frustrating and disappointing. The set design is wonderful, it was very immersive and felt real enough, I loved the transition between areas which included special effects. However, the puzzle design is where the room falls short. Many of the puzzles lacked creativity and there were just too many locks (padlocks and number locks). Some items required multiple locks to open or we'd open a locked box just to find another lock inside. My teammate jokingly called the room, "lockception." It's usually older, 1st generation rooms that rely a lot on locks, but this is their newest room and most other places have advanced to more creative puzzles. There were also some flow issues, no structure to the searching, we had to try the same combo on multiple locks until we found the right one, and after over an hour of lock puzzles, we were just over it. It's only a 90 minute room because they added so many locks to open. It also didn't help that the game master had no way to hear what were doing so he had no idea what we solved already when we asked for clues, the only communication method was a 2-way radio, but this may have been a temporary issue when we played it.

Overall, a really fun game! The set was pretty and there were some puzzles that I really enjoyed/hadn’t seen before! Highly recommend it! And the employees were super professional/friendly!